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OP In another thread that seems to have died out, I mentioned that I had never seen any Indian pottery when I lived in Massachusetts. Last night I found a site that told why. The New England aborigines did indeed have pottery, but their technology was sadly deficient. They apparently did not know how to get high enough temperatures to cause clay to vitrify, and so their pots were very fragile, and disintegrated rapidly. I have been to several archaeologic digs, and never heard pottery mentioned. Only tiny pieces are to be found.
The same site mentioned corn being soaked until it was soft, and then pounded in large bowl-like structures made by using fire to hollow out hardwood stumps, from which charred wood was scraped. The soaked corn was then pounded with a large hard wood pestle. It was such a frequent activity, that boats in fog could use the sound to tell them when they were close to shore.
The pounded product was called "samp" and was often slowly cooked into a porridge.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Narragansett word wwh 01/23/02 06:04 PM Re: Narragansett word of troy 01/23/02 07:13 PM Re: hominy Keiva 01/23/02 07:29 PM Re: hominy wwh 01/23/02 07:49 PM Re: scrapple Bobyoungbalt 01/24/02 04:09 AM Re: hominy Rapunzel 01/24/02 01:56 PM Re: hominy Keiva 01/24/02 04:52 AM Re: hominy milum 01/24/02 12:38 PM Re: hominy Capital Kiwi 01/24/02 12:58 PM Pottery Bryan Hayward 01/23/02 09:01 PM Re: Pottery wwh 01/23/02 10:34 PM
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